ST. LOUIS (AP) – The attorney for a man facing execution next month says she has “very serious concerns” about Missouri’s lethal injection method following a report claiming the state purchased execution drugs from a troubled compounding pharmacy. Buzzfeed News reported that Foundation Care pharmacy was the supplier of pentobarbital used in the 17 Missouri […]

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas can’t cut Medicaid funds to a Planned Parenthood affiliate over videos anti-abortion activists secretly recorded in 2015, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision leaves in place a lower court’s preliminary injunction that blocked Kansas from ending the contract. It is the fifth of […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Senate has endorsed a bill that could boost Medicaid payments for nursing homes. The legislation given initial approval Wednesday would require reimbursement rates for long-term care facilities to be recalculated annually. Legislative researchers estimate it could result in an additional $92 million for nursing homes in the 2019 […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A Springfield man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenager with a mental disability at a YMCA. The Springfield News-Leader reports that 33-year-old Matthew Scott Woolfolk was convicted Tuesday of sexual assault after a trial last year. Police say Woolfolk engaged in sex with the then-17-year-old victim in a […]

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita businessman Wink Hartman is ending his campaign for governor and endorsing Kris Kobach. Hartman said Wednesday he decided during the Kansas GOP convention last weekend. He said his main goal is making the party’s conservative platform into policy to improve Kansas. Hartman, head of Hartman Oil Co., says he is […]

BY MADELINE FOX A call sets it off. One of Kansas’ two foster care contractors learns another child has landed in state custody. It has four hours to pick the kid up. Workers phone other child placement agencies listing the specific needs for a particular child. Family members are found and called. If the contractor […]

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — An Olathe woman has been charged with one count of attempted capital murder after she allegedly gave her three children medication to try and kill them. Johnson County authorities charged 37-year-old Therese Roever Wednesday. Her bond was set at $1 million. Roever and her children were found needing medical attention in […]

ABILENE— Plans to erect a 7-foot-tall bronze statue of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the grounds of the Kansas Statehouse are going to become a reality. On Wednesday, Governor Jeff Colyer signed SB-262 authorizing the statue. The $140,000 likeness of the Abilene native depicts the Supreme Allied Commander speaking to a group of U.S. soldiers […]

(Missourinet) – The group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America had an especially large turnout for its annual rally at the state capitol in Jefferson City Tuesday. Organizer Kim Westerman of the Missouri Mom’s St. Louis chapter says about 100 more people signed on for this year’s gathering since the Florida tragedy. She says […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A Missouri, father and son were charged in federal court today with possessing marijuana to distribute. Osama Nadir Yanis, 48, and his son, Nader Robert Osama Yanis, 23, both of Columbia, were charged in two separate but related criminal complaints filed in the U.S. District Court in Jefferson City, Mo, according […]